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• ..vv. •• Z,,reve, •••• ,14111)Eilli . IL • PARLLIMENI. 110U$E •OF PEERS. MARC}i 7. Mr. ADAM was heard in'reply for the Appellants, on the appeal, itiehen v. Trale and others.,Order ed to be further heard on Wednesday next. IFtwiN, from the Customs, presented an Ac count of the number of Ships 'that came into, or wei - e, brought into, British Ports pursuant to the ope rakion "Of the Oi•ders in Couticil.—Ordered tOlie on .the table. DANISH PRIZES. tor44'SIDIIIOI7TH, alluding .to the various cap turi:ls that had been made on the Danish Commerce. previous to ; any (jeclaration of war, of ships already in our ports, unsuspicious of any boStite 'designs on our part, as well as of ships brought in pursuant to the Orders. iit Council, • wished 'to be informed by his Majesty.'s Government hpw the n proceeds arising iron these captures, which he Was informed amount rd to two millions, were to be applied ; and how Mi nisters intended to cotidtki themselves towards the owners of those ships,whose cargoes were the property of persons who were at the time in habits of friendly and cow meicial intercourse with this Country ? c , inceiving the detention of such ships, under such circonistatices, was on out part a violation of every existing treaty with Denmark, he was compelled to consider the aggression as originating with this Coun tiy lie was further anv.ions to be informed by his Majesty's Ministers,'whether it was their inten tion to treat the crews of those ships as prisoners of war ? Lard H4U'KESLWIIY observed, in reply, that - the cargoes ►►nd owners of the Danish ships.were to be treated in the same manner as those of other na tions placed in similar circu►nstannces. With rzspe&' to t►►e crews he.. Was ready to say, that' they were considered as. prisoners of war. A cartel, had indeed been proposed by. his Majesty's Government, which, however, had not been acceded to. ' Lord StivFoLtc could not repress the ex presSion 'of some alarm at the immense amount of captures made from the Panes. ' It was watural for him to inquire how the sum cif 2,000,0001. was to be applied, or that the public should know in what manner it had been disposed of. Lord HAWIWBUHY assured the noble Earl the amount of these captu re; had been greatly exaggerat ed.; but with regard to every other view to be taken of these proceedings, that would furnish matter of future Lord SIDDIOUTki h►►d no intention to exaggerate when be stated the amount. of these proceeds at two millions ; he spoke from repott ; but whatever' might be the real amount, the pr►nciple iu his mind was the same. ORDERS IN. COUNCIL. On the Order of the Day being read, Lord L'IUDERDA LE rose to make his pro mi,Al motion, respeting the nature of the inter course that . under the • operation of the Orders in . Council was to be adopted respe.c.tiog our allies by the British Government. The Noble Lord con tended, that in many respe6ls the provisions of these ineihures must prove wholly incousisteut with one another, or that they would expose neutrals to in convkitieneies• and difficulties by which they would nut ztl. ide. What were our explanations, and the rpsiqt. exnlanations, wi,ch the Court of Swe nen . Was bweuen and our Hines to adopt a system similar to our Orders in Council ? If Sweden were to (to su, it Must be under certain conditions ; and if that Court submitted to these conditions, it would be int possioie to negociate with the Swbdish Government on the arms of our Orders in Council, ;without al tt,rditig Sweden an opportunity of rising in her de mands, either respetting the at wint of subsidies, or respe&ng the terms upon which, she might judge if prryerto corer iolo any, negotiation With us, on ql:ltt3rs that regarded the, regulation of the neutral trade. kle:slioqld,not . nerw inquire under what cir cumstatices we were placed with regard to our other ; but it was material for the House to know %Om explanations •had been entered into by our Go vernment with respeht to the Court of Stockholm, on the subject .of the Orders in Council, The Noble Lord cowauded with moving (a motion similar to thit -made in the House of , Commons by Lord FL 1' try), • that there be laid before the House what, Correapoodence had passed between the British and the SWCfliSil Governments, with rope& to their tlaltUAl-co.operatiun- in the system of the Orders in Cooncil. , Lord HAwicesuorty was sorry he could not ac.- qnsce'in' the motion of the Noble Lord. What lead as yet been etTet`c.,l into with our respecting the operations of the Orders in C "OW' pertycty satisfactory to his Majesty's tioveeninott ; but , the ultimate arrangements were t7 or yot icy a state to he laid before Parliament with L ,rd Litt cY advised his Noble Friend to withdraw hin motion, in . .”oosegostice of what had fallen from th , .! Nobie Secretary of State, in which advice Lord J.,,wpww4L,gucquic ced and after some observa tion on the kin of ,Lord AUCKLAND, Lord Hot,- and. Lord KtNG, Lord LAUDERDALE With citOW nib Motion with the consent of the House.' Lord LA4DiCKDAL6; , again ruse to make his pro nioed Metien fur the Answer of the British Minister in America to the. Note of Mr. Maddison of the 291 h March, 1807, respeding the Coasting Trade. Much depended on the nature of that answer, respeaitig the unpression produced on the American Guvern mein by the'Order in Council of the 7th January. lie was therefore de.ikous the Reuse should be in p'obsession of. it. The Noble Lord Conclud e d with moving for the production of that document. Lord 'FlAwraseuaY .a.,sared the Noble Lord that no such document .was in existence, and, eonse fluently, that it could 'not be produced. Lord Howarp And Lord KING professed them sekles.satistied with the Noble Secretary's answer; tor all they, wished to ascertain was, that no an 6tk'er bad been returned to Mr. Maddison's note. . The question was then put on Lord LAUDER DALE'S Motion, and negatived without a division. Adjourned till to•tnarrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, MARCIJ 7. The SPZAKER acquainted the House that be had received 4 Letter from Brigadier-General Sir 5, AO amity, dated the 4st instant, in answer to one from him, transruittiug the Resolutions of the House of the 16th April last. He then read the tatter, which I contained a brief hut neat achnowlec4ment to the f t House lor,,the .* distingued hm oerr that they had ,Corifer (1/OO the Genera!, -oli Brigadier-General Lumle i ke r a , n4 on the Ot4ers and TrOops compoiit% the-ArtaY that, ttac:ktd ,Monte Video, all of whoin felt highly grateful lur this marl( of the approbatiOn of their fellow-subjeos, thus conveyed to them through the medittin of their . Representatives. Mr. SINILON brough up the Report of the Grant poUnd Committee, which declared the Election for that Borough to be null and void. Writs were immediately ordered for the ,Eledion of two Bur gesses. .. ,Mr. WILBERFORCE brought up the Report of the Newcastle-under-Line Committee, which stated that the Sitting Members were duly eleded, and that the Petition that had been presented against them was not friiolous or vexatious. Mr. JOHNSON, from the Office of the Chief Se cretary for Ireland, presented an Account, of the amount of Irish Bank Notes in circulation : and an AccOunt of the produce of the Ordinary Revenue of Ireland.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. IttvsNe, fiom the Commissioners of Customs, presented an' Account of the ntunber of Neutral Vessels that had been brought into British Itrts under the Orders in Council --Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. PARNELL presented a Petition from the Free holders of the Queen's County, praying for a Com mutation of Tithes. He observed, that the Free . holders of that County amounted to 4000; that this Petition expressed the unanimous sense of the County, being no party business whatever; that it was signed by several beneficed Clergymen, and that . every Clergyman with whom he had conversed on the subject had declared his decided approbation of the obje& which the 'Petitioners sought. He trusted, therefore, that the Petition would meet with that attention from the Hose to which it was entitled, for he was convinced that no measure that could be proposed would tend more effeaually to allay the discontents in Ireland, than the Commutation or the Tithes of that Country. Under thiS impressionlie gave notiet, that if his Majesty's M l ieisters should not take up this subject, he would, on an early day alter the recess, .muve that that Petition be reterred to a Committee. of the whole House r• he would de lay his motion, because he understood that several other Petitions of a sirnliar nature were in prepara tion, and particularly 'from s.orte of the Grand Juries. The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. The Mutiny Bill having been read a second time, The SZCRETARY at WAR, in moving that it be committed to-morrow, .gave notice that his Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh), in pursuance of his former intimation, would propose a .Clause allowing Recruits the option of. enlisting for a term of years or for lite. It was alui intended to introduce -tvio Clauses; one respecting Scotch Apvremices, the other regulating Courts Martial. Sir J. NEWPORT condemned very pointedly what he termed.a moit.extraordinary mode of putting an end to a system that, after repeated discussions ) had received the sanEtion of Parliament, by a clause in a Bill in a Committee. The CHANcEtzowof the EXCREGUER denied that the mode adopted by 'hts Noble Friend was an im proper one; and proved_: very thatindly, not only that there wag no otlitor way of making the alter*. firm that was deemed advisable, but that this was the very way taken last. year by the late Admi nistration. Mr. CALCR/47 refire tted that the Noble Lord had not given a more dis taut notice of his intention, as that would have afford ed opportunities for several debates on the subject. Mr. PARNELI. asked, ‘-thether it was intended to alter the Clau,a.; by , whit It Catholic Soldiers were not compelled to attend di rine service in Protestant Churches ? The SECRETARY at WAR. replied, that no alteration in that Clause was in contimphnion. The Bill was then or.ijered to be committed to. morrow. Sir A. WELLEst.ev bronglit rip the Report of Lord Lake's Annuity E;i11; wkaztt • was agreed to, and ordered'. to be read A thii'd time to-morrow. The American Cain plissiotierg 13i11 was read a second time, ant! after A short conversation between Sir W. CURTIS and Eivskessols, ordered to be coininitted to-morrow. The Sugar brawbor'k Bill and the Sugar Bounty Bill went through Corn.rnittees, the Reports cat which were ordered to ure reCei ved to•nuorrow. Mr. lip N 1:3 11 rose to move, ‘!. That such part of the , Papers presentca l to the House on the loth and i tth of February, as related tc, the Fees and Gratuities paid On I. sit ences for Navigation anti Trade, be mimed to the Committee on Public : Offices."—The subject .)f these Licet t ses resolved it self into two parts. Th e first, and by far the most important, was the. acki lowledged anomaly in our commercial system whit. It they had occasioned, and the encroachment which 'they ' bad made upon the Coustitution, by placing i'.he whole of the fbreign trade of the . Country uudt ir the controul of the Exe. cutive Government, than my interference by whom, itt commekcial affair, all ri t lei concurred in de claring not any, tlkig could be more prejudicial.- But it was not to this great: branch of the subject he at present wished to dra w the attention of the house; abotdd his Majest;.i's Ministers, who, from so many circemstancer, to iust be infinitely better qualified to bring it under ti Se consideration of Par liament, neglect to do so, he pledged himself, at some future period of the Se. ption, to undertake the task. At present all he de: fired was, to investigate. the minor branch of it, tiatt) ly; the amount of the fees obtained through tf u m dium of ,the licences, and the nature of the authority by which those fees Were claimed. It appealed to him that ill hese tenses were considered as generally necessary, it Would be much better cot tic to the Legislature, and render the trade, to the c irrying on which they were the sant - lion, legal .tbr a time to be limited , in 11111lati011 of Mr. .Pitt, in .179 , s, at whose instigation the importation of Spattio,l gc xids was permitted by of Parliament. Advertic . g to the Returns of the Fees, Gratuities, arc. he of )iserved, that they were not quite satisfatilory. It w ss stated in those Re turns, that the fee for a licet ice amounted only to 1.21. gs. rid. ; now he knew that on every licence that had been granted, the fe es had exceeded 141. and sometimes 201. ; and rite t where one Merch a nt had obtained licences for se Feral ships, i nstea d o f an additional guinea only ha sing been charged for each vessel, as stated in the Returns, not Tess Tian 651. or tiril. had been charged for a licence for six )Jr.i ROSE observed, that So long since riS Au u: us,t• last his Majesty's i'slinistertitad instituted an inqui . ry: into this subjeCt, and,thaNsome weeks ago t Ite'Privy Council, finding the amount of the tees .to be so considerable, had taken the matter into serious consideration, and .had entered into a striet. tion of it. Before the reference of the subjea to the Committee of Finance, he thought it would be most desirable to have before the House the . proceediogs of the Privy Council, and he therefore recommend ed to the Hon. 'Gentleman to postpone his motion for a short time, in order to give an opportunity in a few days of moving , an, Address to his Majesty for the produCtion of the proceedings of the Privy Council. Nothing could be furtherfrom his wish, than to suppress inquiry on - this Subjeti, which, on the contrary; be was desirous shOuld be thoroughly sifted., The ADJ'OCATE GENERAL remarked, that' the ground on Which these licences had been gram ed, was, not for the purpose of placing foreign trade under the contrcmt of the Executive Government, but. to permit British subjetls to trade with the ene my. In 1805, a General Order in . Council had been issued,. to enable British perchants to trade with the enemy, in certain articles of great import ance to agriculture and to manufaOures. In Feb. 1807, an extension of that Order had been made ; hut the merchants had nevertheless continued vo luntarily to take out licences, although they had been repeatedly told that they were unnecesiary. After some limiter conversation, in which Sir JOHN NEWPORT, 'Mr. THOMPSON, the CHAN/31.- LOU of the gXCHEaustu, and Mr. W. SMITH, par ticipated, Mr. HORNUR agreed to postpone his Motion. . . • On the Motion of Sir FRANCIS Buitea:rr,, an ACCOMIC was ordered to be laid befOre the House of the Total Sum issued under Warrants front his Majesty out of the, Registry of the Court of Admi ralty, being Proceeds of • the Droits of the Court of .Admiralty, or of the Druits of the Crown, from Jan. 1792 ,to the latest period, to which • the same could be made out; and also of the Balances remaining in the Registry of the Court of Admiralty, out of the said Droits. ' Mr. Secretary CANNING presented Copies' of the Correspondence between Mr. Secretary ,Fox, and Mr. Secretary Windhatn, and the Earls of Rosslyn and St. Vincent, and Lieutenpt-General Siincoe, in August and ocptetnber, t 80. Urdered to be printed. 'On the ,Motion of the CHANCELLOR . of the Ex citeQuea, the Report of the Orders in ,Council .Bill was taken into further consideration, and agreed to : But on the Motion that the Bill be engrossed, a short conversation took place between' Mr. PON.. SONBY, Lord HENRY PETTY, Mr. ALEX.BARINt3,.. Mr. EDEN,' the CfiANCRELOR Of the I;xcnEctutirt, Mr. ROSE, and Sir JOHN NEWroty, upon several of the Clauses; atter .winch the Bill mitts ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time on Thursday next. . Mr. WND11.431, understanding that notice had been given ot an intention to introduce a Clause into the Mutiny Rill, which would have the etted of overturning the w . hule of the military system adopt ed last year, gave notice that he would oppose the Bill in every stage in which the thrills of the House would enable hini to toe it opposition. The SECRETARY at WAR presented several Military Returns ; which were Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. HUSKISSON 'was sorry to be again obligee}; in conseqUence of the indisposition of' his Hon. Friend; the President of the 4oard of Coutroul, to deter the Motion which stood for to-morrow, reht. tive to the affairs of India; to Friday next: Mr. G. PONSOAIi Y reminded, the kion.Gen tlepian that an important Motion had airtaitly been fixed for that day by an Hon. friend ot his (Mr. Shairpe), and intimated, that if the Motion ot the President of the Board of Controul was likely to lead. to any lengthened discussion, his Hon. Friend could not give it precedence. •. HUSKI,sSO. replied,' that his Hon. Friend might not on that day be able to attend, but if the state of his health shoulthbe such as to allow at his attending in his place, and the motion he had to ni:11:e should' be lii;ilY to lead to any debate., he had no doubt that he would consent to put it int to some oilier day; . . Tile .other orders of the day were then disposed of.--Adiournetl. FROND THE FRENCI- 41A'D DUTCH PAPEIL§.. UTRECHT, V'EB.. l l4 t —thithe th of last month lo s Moje,t ) , our King, issued the following Decree, relative to the abrogatlon of the Kniphausen Flag : ROY II DECREE OF THE 24th lAN. ar..B. LOUIS NAPOLEON, BY THE GRACE OP GOD AND coNsyrruTloN ov Tito , KINGDOM, KING Ort HOLLAND, AND DONSTAALL UP 'FRANCE, Pursuant to the atlual ratification of the Treaty concluded at Fontainblean, •on th e I ith of Nov. t 807,• by which the Lordships of. Kniphausen and Varel are united to this Kingdom, in like manner as the territories whic.h are comprised in the p oss e ss i ons of the Princes constituting a part of the Contede. ! racy.of the Rhine, we have decreed, and do Hereby . decree, as Aar. I. The Kniphausen flag being abrogated in consequence of the union of that territory- with this Kingdom, shall be no longer recognised or valid. The consuls and, ther Agents of Co u nt B ENTI CK, as Lord ofVarel and Kniphausen, shall be no longer recognised in the said capacities. Ir. All inhabitants of 'the Kniphausen and Varel territories shall be at liberty to carry Dutch Co lours, They are charged to change the ancient Co louxs, which they may have Watling to their Ves sels, the same being utterly cancelled. All .requests made to Count BENTINCK, for leave to sail under the ancient Flag, shall immedi atelybesent_to our Minister of Finance. IV. Our Ministers of Finance, of the Interior, of Justice and Police, and of Marine, arc charged with tile execution of the present Decree, which shall be Made public in all places where it may be deemed pece,ssary. Thu Lesi,s , 'give I3ody, whicia was proroguud ever since the first 07 this month, was again assembl , !:l yesterday, and will continue its deliberations on Friday next. FEB. 28.—The Minister of Finance being autho. rised by the King, has given the necessary directions that no more cockets shall be granted for the expor- . tation of salt. PARIS, 'Fn. 24.—The Grand Duke of BERG left this city on the 21st, to return to his own dominions; and it will soon appear whether the cession of the territory of Munster, and some smaller Principalities in that neighbourhood (which has for some time been ,positively asserted to have been made to the said Prince by our Sovereign), will be confirmed.-;-- We are informed that the eldest daughter of the Grand Duke aforesaid has obtained the title of a Prin• cess of ELTE:I. In the menth of January , sundry reports were spread respetling the sailing of some Squadrons from the ports'of France and those of her Allies. The alarms of the British appear to be the principal cause of several of those accounts; so we cannot tell whe ther it is from England, or elsewhere, that they have reached the Continent. Arnong.the rest there was a report at - Genoa, in the beginning pf Fe bruary, that the Fleets of Carthagena and Cadiz bad put to sea. The conduct of •the British Ministry affords to the Opposition Papers such a wide field of censure, that they are hardly prevented by any thing but the dif ficulty of diming the topics. Thus we daily see articles appearing, which, (although they are writ ten for the sole purpose of derogating from the party Which differs from that of the writers,) • instead-of being polemical cavillations, become well-founded treatises.. which the nation reads not with a smile, but with a sigh. FaONTIuRs.OF To It mai, FEB. . —The Russian troops on the left Bank of the Danube seem ,to. make preparations fot .opening a vigorous campaign. in the beginning of the Spring, When the Armistice will expire, unless an attual peace should 'prevent the re-commencement of hostilities billore that time. In the Conquered fortresses of ChoCzym and Bender, *and at Jassy, Fokschati and .Iticharest, the Russian gunners are employed without mission in the preparation of ammunition of every kind. NAPLES, FEB. s.—lt has been long foreseen, that, as soon as the,new internal regulation of this king dom (which had become necessary from the chango ,in the dynasty and the political situation) should be sufficiently established, and as 3 001108 political circamstances should permit or require, our Govern ment ' would be seriously bent upon obtaining p9s.• session of the transmaritte part of this kingdom, the Island of Sicily. But before this is actually taken in hand, it is required to drive the English from the only post which they have occupied in the . Conti.! nental part of this kingdom, nay, of all Italy, name ly, the fort Scylla, situated on a rock in the Straits of Messina. The s'.ege of that fort Will,,it seems, be one cf the first ei nploy metnhte o s , ot i . )e t , l: t e tio a n r s m ofwi t i ywl i i c ch is assembled in Calaeria, and cannot fail ()tope:es.. The King ), preparing to gq to the said army in person, so, tiro m ay s oon est pe& to hear some timber tcclunt of its operations.. VALIINTIA, Jilifig' , "' -41 4ether with the str i a measures taken by' rr.t . ,"iirict her Allies against th e Communication wittb .'" ) ;;latid, the nor:diet precau bons are taken to' t'lt t !ent slips, belonging to the Continental Powers, ',rum fatting into the bands of the British. The Intendant ut the Army, Don FRANCISCO XAVIER on ASPE HOS, has made the fol lowing communication to the Company ut Merchants in this sea-port town Whereas his Highness the Prince Grand-A& miral has interned me, that the Emperor of the French and King of Italy has resolved, that no Danish, Dutch, Spanish, or other Ships of Ids shall be permitted to sail Irons any French Port, that they may nut run the risk of being captor-. ed by the English ; DOW the King, animated by similar precaution, has thought proper to resolve tiust the sante nieasures . shall be adopted in all ports of his Kingdom, and that no French, Danish, Dutch, or other Vessels,.belonging to the Countries of his Allies, shall. be permitted to sail, and this solely w ith a view that they may nut be exposed to capture by the English. ST. PLTORSMIRGII, Fen. 3,—Thrirg the interval of repose which the Ruisizin Armies have enjoyed since the Peace with Prance, and the Armistice with Turkdy, our Curt has been very mindful to recruit their numbers, and imp r ove limit condition. Gen . BuxnovuzsN, during his stay in Russian Poland, has there organized a force, estimated at 180:Regiments , consisting, fur the greatest part, of fresh recruit°. Of .those Regiments only 26, or 30,. have remain ed on the spot ; the rest have marched partly to . Mola , dtvia and partly to Finland. In the Conunissariat and 'Vi c tualli ng Department for the Armies, an important change has taken place . Both these departments are now united in. the Wag of the Privy Counsellor Da ROOM The Duke of RICHELIKU, iVlilitary Governor of Cherson, is arrived here from our Southern Pro vinces, and the Mjor-Cieneral IVlus.r.ga is arrived from Paris. CAssrc, Fez. Deputation of the Jews in the kingdom of W est ph a lia has assembled here , con sisting partly of R a bbis, partly of Eiders. On the Bth the Deputati o n wer e.introduced by M. liam a. JACOBSON, Counsellor of Flounces, to the M inister Of State, M. StMlioN, and afterwards to King Js- ROME. JAC(43sON addressed his Majesty in a short speech, and the following is part of ttie reO which was matte : " I am satisfied with your speech. That article in .the Constitution of my Kingdom, which ego' bushes the equality of all religions, is in perfect son with the feelings of my heart. The law cu.• 4 111 to interrupt no man in the exercise of his w0r , ;1 ,1 1 3 x Earth subject is as much at liberty to observe the rules of his faith, as the King is to follow his le" ligion. The duties of the Citizen are the .0114' objeCts which the Laws of the Government can ra gulate.'' .111111...110 • HAataunott, Fan. 2V.—Nearly all the Powers °I Europe have now followed tile example of the De cree issued by the French emperor for the exclusion of England iron) intercourse with the Colitinen i ,, , The Duke of MECKLENBURG/I has recently issoe cl a , very severe Decree, prohibiting ills subjeOts from every kind of , coinmunication or 'commerce Will' England. . . COPEN}Witatt, FED. -16....+1f the continuance, ond.